SMEs, which do not have the means to invest in the solutions they need, will find in Egide the means to monitor what happens to them. Photo: Romain Gamba / Maison Moderne / Archives

SMEs, which do not have the means to invest in the solutions they need, will find in Egide the means to monitor what happens to them. Photo: Romain Gamba / Maison Moderne / Archives

Under the coordination of the ministry of economy and Securitymadeinlu, Jean-Guy Roche and RGroupe will launch this Wednesday at the International Forum of Cybersecurity in Lille a new product for SMEs, and even for large groups that are interested: Egide.

Luxembourg is rowing in the same direction. With for the ministry of the economy and for Securitymadeinlu, Luxembourg’s cybersecurity specialists are hoping to make their mark at the International Cybersecurity Forum in Lille, starting this Wednesday.

“After our huge attack on our cloud three years ago,” recalls RGroupe CEO , “we said to ourselves that the best defence was the attack and we also created RSecure, which specialises in cybersecurity, to think about how to provide solutions for SMEs, given that large companies already have many solutions. We set up a strategy, called HOP, which translates to humain-outils-processus [editor’s note, human-tools-process], a fast-growing cyber consulting business.”

Two meetings later, the adventure changes in scope again. The manager decided to take a stake in the Belgian company Esia, which specialises in the development of cybersecurity solutions, and then to extend the offer of know-how to the Grand Est region, mainly in Metz and Nancy... where the problems are the same.

A box and a dashboard

Egide was born 18 months ago: the idea of a smartbox connected to a client’s network, which captures technical parameters and sends the information to a cloud so that it can be correctly analysed according to a threefold axis that is fairly well known in the industry: monitoring, alerting and supervising.

“After 25 years of selling services, this is the first time I’ve sold a product,” Roche said with amusement as he presented the alpha version of the product, which will be marketed in September. “It is no longer a vertical tool, as we see so many of them because it responds to a problem and places the company in silos, but transversal. The CEO of the SME--though if large companies are interested, no worries--has a dashboard that allows them to better assess the risk and take appropriate action.”

RCarre has no access to the data, but the box and the solution, installed in three days, make it possible to better anticipate problems. “We know today that everyone will be targeted one day or another by an attack and that any solution must be constantly re-evaluated and improved in the light of technological developments,” acknowledged the manager, who had to recruit to develop and deploy the first tool made in house from his long experience.

This story was first published in French on . It has been translated and edited for Delano.

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